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Finding New Sounds in a Guitar

Yeasayer's album channels motorcycles and pickaxes

Updated Feb. 5, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Indie rock band Yeasayer is disguising its guitars. On the group's second album, "Odd Blood," the electric-guitar tones rarely resemble those of the typical Stratocaster out in the garage. Instead, they sometimes sound like pickaxes striking rock, or speeding motorcycles.

"You've heard mostly what a guitar can do. We didn't want to [repeat] that, and a lot of our contemporaries don't want to either," says singer Chris Keating (at right), a core member along with Anand Wilder and Ira Wolf Tuton.

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